Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'BIRD BOLT'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Historic display label found with Z 30867 A-C: 'Figured Specimens from Camb Ant Soc / Bird Bolt Hotel 1906 / found in digging foundations for Norwich Union and Liberal Club. / 19 boxes sent to Archaeol[og]y Mus[eu]m / T McKenny Hughes'

[See image attached to record Z 26852 A. Katrina Dring, 05/02/2024]
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
J.G. Hurst (1957): 'Black sherd with brown surfaces with an applied band pushed up into ridges and rough lines parallel to it above and below.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'S.19'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 26854 [A-C]: 'Sherds, including large rim sherd from a Cooking Pot.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found during building work, 1904-1906 (see Browne, p. 26)
Event Date 1904
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (References)
Hughes, Thomas McKenny. (1907). 'On the Section Seen and the Objects Found During Excavations on the Site of the Old Bird Bolt Hotel'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 11(3). pp. 424-445
Event Date 1907
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Hurst, J. G. and West, S. E. (1957). 'Saxo-Norman Pottery in East Anglia. Part II.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 50. pp. 29-60
Event Date 1957
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (References)
Browne, David M. (1974). 'An Archaeological Gazetteer of the City of Cambridge.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 65. p. 26
Event Date 1974
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Black body sherd with brown and orange surfaces, with an applied horizontal strip with thumbed impressions and rough lines parallel to it above and below.
Event Date 13/10/2023
Author: Danlei Zhou